Free girls' education advocate, Taliban urged

By Associated Press

Mar 30, 2023 12:30 am

ISLAMABAD: Calls mounted on Wednesday for the Taliban to free a girls' education advocate who was arrested earlier this week in Kabul, as a government minister defended the detention.

Matiullah Wesa, founder and president of Pen Path — a local nongovernmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library — was arrested in the Afghan capital on Monday.

READY TO STUDY Girls attend class on the first day of the new school year in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on March 25, 2023. AP FILE PHOTO

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